Galerie B
Glass Art
Egyptians made glass as early as 4000 years ago. In the twentieth century, the large factories defined glass art up to the fifties. A new period began with the invention of the small studio furnace: The studio glass movement emerged. Independent of glass factories and their large furnaces, many artists were now able to make works of free-blown, non-functional, pure glass art. Glass formed individually by artists spread quickly.
Large museums began to build collections. He fascination of the older matter glass was rediscovered: transparent like nothing or impermeable to light; shiny like polished silver or as rough as sandstone. Read more...
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current Exhibition
Josepha Gasch-Muche - Franz Xaver Höller - Julius Weiland
7 April, 2012 – 7 July, 2012
For the first time there will be no solo exhibition at the Galerie B. This year‘s anniversary, "20 years Galerie B", will be celebrated with works by the “repeated artists“ presented in alternating group exhibitions visualizing the various aspects of contemporary glass art.
Three German artists will lead off the series of exhibitions that will change every two to three months, each showing a small group of Galerie B artists. Glass is what they all have in common, but their forms of expression are very different. ...
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